DescriptionIn Late May 1966 a force of 8,500 Marines and 2,500 South Vietnamese troops launched Operation Hastings. The goal of Operation Hastings was to thwart the efforts of the North Vietnamese 324 B Division to take control of Quang Tri Province.Seven Marine infantry battalions deployed from Dong Ha, a small village south of the Demilitarized Zone, the boundary between North and South Vietnam. The brushy hill country and tangled jungles in the mountains bordering the eastern DMZ was unexplored territory for American Infantry forces. The Marines moved north to engage forces of the North Vietnamese Army infiltrating south through this difficult terrain. United States Marines were sent with a task: Organize a Marine recon mission to pinpoint the location and activities of the North Vietnamese. Combined U.S. intelligence assets determined that a North Vietnamese force had massed in large numbers west of Dong Ha and south of the DMZ.Over the next ten days, the Marine Corps encountered its most bloody and bitter combat, fighting a jungle war that matched WWII in difficulty and savagery. The operation was one of the bloodiest, most difficult and historically significant battles of the war in Vietnam.

There will be 3 Teams

U.S.M.C.You are rugged, well trained Marines sent to South East Asia to halt communism!

A.R.V.N.Not well trained, and exhausted from years of war that has torn your country in two, you assemble in the Valley to help the Americans crush the communists.

N.V.A. 324 B Division:Fighting to preserve your way of life against American Invasion you must fight for your freedom, life, and pride

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Let your plans be dark and as impenetratable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.

Not sure how my schedule is, but that looks really fun. If I did come I would of course be on the same team as you guys. I lack a radio so perhaps I will keep my eyes open this weekend while out and about.